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Comment on Which is the best energy company? by The Big Switch: collective bargaining for cheaper energy | Make Wealth History

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:11:19 +0000

[...] the major factor behind my choice of energy supplier. I wanted a company that was proactively changing Britain’s energy future (I chose Ecotricity). For households struggling with their bills, price is much more important, and [...]

Comment on Top ten social documentary cliches by Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:11:07 +0000

Yes, plenty of these documentaries manage to make a real impact despite the cliches, and The Corporation is one of them.

Comment on 31,478 scientists agree climate change is a hoax by Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:06:36 +0000

Jamie, that means over two thirds of the cited references are peer reviewed, and the IPCC report itself is peer reviewed. The IPCC acknowledges that much of the science is uncertain – the important thing is that we recognise the bits that we do know for sure, and anthropomorphic global warming is, they reckon, 95% likely.

Comment on 31,478 scientists agree climate change is a hoax by Jamie Oz

Jamie Oz — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:32:45 +0000

Jeremy, May I suggest you read “The Delinquent Teenager” by Donna Laframboise?
Her “Citizen Audit” of the 2007 IPCC Climate Bible found that :

“of all 18,531 references cited in the 2007 IPCC report…
…….. 5,587 ARE NOT PEER-REVIEWED.”

and;

” 21 out of 44 chapters contain so few peer-reviewed references, they get
an F (59% and below).”

and;

“only 18% of the 44 chapters receive an A grade.”

In the words of Rajendra Pachauri, “The UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) is our main customer..”

Since the UNFCCC is an international emissions treaty, what are the chances that the IPCC, working to support an emissions treaty, will produce unbiased reports?

Those who fail to question what they are told, are doomed to believe whatever they are told.

Comment on Top ten social documentary cliches by Giri Ramgopal

Giri Ramgopal — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:16:33 +0000

Great watching list.

Shame you had to use cliched image from a clip used in ‘The Corporation’. Which was a really important documentary for me. But point well made.

Comment on Dirty banks: who’s bankrolling climate change by Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:22:33 +0000

Did you read the article? The banks themselves say they’re going to avoid activity that contributes to climate change. Either they should stop lying, or they should do exactly what you say.

Banks can survive just fine without investing in coal. My bank doesn’t.

Comment on Dirty banks: who’s bankrolling climate change by klem

klem — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:44:32 +0000

Um, yuo don’t actally expect banks to reject financing multi million dollar business oportunities because they mean coal will be burned do you?

A business should be targeting making more money, not reducing money.

If any CEO of a bank actually rejects huge business oportunitues because of coal, they should be replaced imediatly.

cheers

Comment on Unearthing the truth about mining rights by Write to your MEP about mining transparency | Make Wealth History

Write to your MEP about mining transparency | Make Wealth History — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:41 +0000

[...] A few weeks ago I wrote about Tearfund’s Unearth the Truth campaign, which calls for transparency in the extractive industries in developing countries. Unless mining companies are forced to disclose how much they pay for mining rights, people have no way to keep the government accountable. Revenues from mining or drilling can vanish, and local people get no share in the wealth of natural resources extracted from their own lands. It is a gift to corrupt officials. [...]

Comment on Five myths about the financial transaction tax by Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:54:29 +0000

Thanks. That’s a level of mathematical complexity above my pay-grade, but it’s an interesting conclusion, that “our inter-
est rates based financial systems have a hidden distribution mechanism from the large majority of the society to the wealthy minority.”

Comment on Stop burning our trees – what’s this about? by Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:50:42 +0000

Yes, that’s a fair point. The solution is to cut the subsidies however, not to ban the burning of virgin wood. I oppose this campaign because it goes too far, and it would outlaw small and sustainable woodlands-based combined heat and power systems. There are lots of ways of ending perverse subsidies and encouraging other wood using SMEs without going for an all-out ban.